HC rejects Gouda's advance bail plea, interim relief lifted

The Orissa High Court today rejected the anticipatory bail application of a suspended Assistant Director of the state's Directorate of Factories and Boilers whose name has surfaced in a health check-up scam.
With this, the earlier interim relief granted to him by the HC stands cancelled.
Taking up the anticipatory bail petition, the HC had earlier this month granted an interim protection to Motilal Gouda restraining the police from arresting him till June 24 (today).
When the petition came up for hearing today, the single bench of Justice J P Das rejected it after the police strongly opposed it. The state crime branch police are investigating the case.

Gouda, who is said to have strong political links, was suspected to be the mastermind behind issuance of a recent fake gazette notification in which corporate houses and private companies in the state were asked to get their employees health check-ups in certain selected pathological laboratories.
It is alleged that Gouda received huge kickbacks from these empanelled laboratories.